Japan: Samurai Skyjackers

The Japanese have a genius for
embellishmentoften to excess. This proclivity, which they have
already demonstrated in commerce, manners and entertainment, was
extended last weak to the recent Western fad of skyjacking. The
seat-belt sign had just flashed off aboard Japanese Airlines' Flight
351 from Tokyo to Fukuoka when nine young men strategically stationed
throughout the crowded aircraft suddenly sprang to their feet. At first
some passengers thought that it was only some kind of show or trick.
Then the youths pulled out daggers and short, curved samurai swords.
Some of them shouted, "We are the Red Army"an extremist...